Licensing, Cloud and Web Services - Entitlement Management Settings not applied to Projectwise Explorer

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Background

The owner of a ProjectWise Server can configure the server to supply licensing to the clients (the account pays for the sub-contractor’s Passport entitlement) or require external users to "Bring your own" license.

The ProjectWise Client Licensing User Setting on ProjectWise Server

The user setting is called "Client Licensing" in the properties \ settings for each ProjectWise account (every user account is individually configurable) that determines how that user is required to obtain a license.

This Setting is only visible to the administrator of the ProjectWise Server
The following information can also be found in the ProjectWise Administrator help.

This setting has two options:

Datasource ownser provides license - If on, the ProjectWise Client will activate and log its usage to the SELECTserver that the ProjectWise Integration Server is configured to use. (Default setting)
User provides license - If on, the ProjectWise Client will log its usage to the SELECT Server that the computer on which the ProjectWise Client is installed is configured to use. The SELECTserver the Client is activating through can be configured by using the License Management Tool that is delivered with ProjectWise Explorer ("...\ProjectWise\bin\licensetool.exe"), MicroStation or other Bentley software.

This setting lets the administrator specify how license usage is activated and recorded for each user, once logged in to a datasource in ProjectWise Explorer or ProjectWise Administrator. The specified user may use their own licensing for one datasource and datasource owner licensing for another.

Issue

If an internal user is configured to "Activate and record usage through connected Integration Server", ProjectWise Explorer will ignore any license restrictions set up in Entitlement Management for the user. Usually this is not an issue Unless -

Admin wishes user to be denied access to ProjectWise Explorer
Admin wishes user to have access to ProjectWise Drive and ProjectWise Web (user must be set up as a user in the Data Source to access)

Resolution

The ProjectWise Administrator must switch the configuration from "Activate and record usage through connected Integration Server" to "Activate and record usage through client's configured SELECTserver", this will force ProjectWise Explorer to honor any Entitlement Management restrictions set for the user.